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My guest today is Paul Seabright, Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse and the author of a new book 'The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People.' We spoke about what membership of a religious community offers people, and why it isn't necessarily irrational for poor people to give a large proportion of their i…